Peer recognition that lives inside Slack. Three minutes to install. Bot bundles your shoutouts into a weekly, monthly, or quarterly summary — your choice.
Step 0 · Three things you need
Before installing the Slack recognition bot, get these three things ready. Two minutes.
An HR Punks account with admin access. Sign up free and Kudos Punk is one click from the Apps catalog.
Workspace admin (or owner) privileges in Slack. Required to approve the OAuth scopes during install.
A public or private channel where the periodic kudos summary will post. The bot auto-joins on selection.
3 steps · 3 minutes · no code
Three steps to get the Slack recognition bot running in your workspace. You do this once. After that, shoutouts are automatic.
Open Settings → Apps in your HR Punks dashboard. Find the Kudos Punk tile and click Install.
Admin access required. The Apps page lists every HR Punks add-on. Kudos Punk is free for the first 30 days, no card.
Open HR Punks Apps
You land on the Kudos Punk app tile, ready to install.
Slack shows its OAuth consent screen. Review the permissions, click Allow to connect your workspace.
Post messages, read user profiles, run slash commands, read bot DMs. No channel history access. Workspace owner can revoke any time from Slack Settings → Apps.
Slack redirects you back to HR Punks, connected.
Open the Kudos Punk App Home in Slack. Click Select Channel under Admin Controls and pick where the periodic summary should post.
Required to unlock the public Home tab sections and the periodic summary. Default cadence is weekly. The bot auto-joins the channel you pick.
Bot is live. The next public kudos joins the upcoming summary automatically.
You're set
Bot runs itself from here
Channel + cadence
Two settings to configure before your first summary fires. The announcement channel is required. Cadence defaults to weekly and you can change it any time.
Select an announcement channel in Admin Controls before anything else. Nothing public posts until a channel is set.
Every Monday morning
Best for teams that recognise often and want momentum to compound week over week.
First of each month
Good fit when you want recognition to feel like a curated digest rather than a constant feed.
Start of each quarter
For teams that want kudos to align with quarterly review rhythm.
2 settings · all defaults shown
Kudos Punk has two settings. Channel is required. Cadence defaults to Weekly. Both live in Admin Controls inside the Slack Home tab and in the web dashboard.
The Slack channel where the public kudos summary posts. The bot joins automatically when you pick it. This is the only required setting — nothing public goes out until it is set.
How often public kudos are bundled into a summary post. Weekly lands every Monday morning. Monthly lands on the first of each month. Quarterly lands at the start of each quarter.
Home tab · slash commands · send flow
The Slack recognition bot lives in your workspace. App Home for every user, three slash commands, and a two-path send flow for public or private kudos.
Three commands · everyone
Type /kudospunk and the bot responds in-channel. Three commands available to every teammate in your workspace.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| /kudospunk @teammate great work on the demo | Sends a kudos to one or more teammates. Choose Main Stage (public) or Underground (private) before confirming. |
| /kudospunk shoutout to the whole team for the launch | Broadcasts general appreciation to everyone — no specific recipients. Joins the next public summary automatically. |
| /kudospunk help | Full command reference, basic moves, and admin contact. |
App Home · per user
Nine sections covering your stats, pending shoutouts, recent kudos given and received, leaderboards, and admin controls.
Give Kudos button
Primary CTA at the top of the Home tab. Opens the kudos modal: pick recipients, write the message, choose Main Stage or Underground.
Stats
Period bounds plus four counters: kudos given this period, kudos received this period, total given all-time, total received all-time.
Pending Shoutouts
Public kudos you sent this period that have not been published yet. They will appear in the next periodic summary.
Your Recent Shoutouts (Given)
Your ten most recent kudos to teammates, with a link to the full history in the web dashboard.
Your Latest Hits (Received)
Your ten most recent kudos received, with a link to the Hall of Fame in the web dashboard.
Most Appreciated Artists
Top ten kudos receivers for this period and all-time. Read-only public leaderboard.
Top Rockstars
Top ten kudos givers for this period and all-time. The people powering your recognition culture.
Quick Commands
Inline cheat sheet of the most common /kudospunk forms and the help command.
Admin Controls
Admins onlyTwo controls inside the Home tab: a current-channel readout and a Change Channel button that opens the channel picker modal. Cadence is changed from the web dashboard.
Main Stage or Underground
Open the modal or use the slash command. Three moves to send recognition. You choose the stage before confirming.
Mention one or more teammates in /kudospunk, or pick them in the modal. You can send a single kudos to multiple people at once.
Free-form text up to about a thousand characters. Be specific - recognition lands harder when the receiver can picture the moment.
Main Stage joins the next public summary in your announcement channel. Underground delivers as a private DM digest to the recipient only.
Two paths · one choice
Every kudos lands on one of two stages. Pick at send time. You can not change it after posting.
On the web · admin view
The web dashboard gives every user a personal view of kudos received, given, and public. Admins also see org-wide leaderboards and can change cadence.
Received
Every kudos you received in the selected period. Sender, message, date. Honours the period dropdown at the top.
Given
Every kudos you sent in the selected period. Useful for keeping yourself honest about how often you celebrate teammates.
Public
Org-wide public kudos in the selected period. The single source of truth for what made it onto the Main Stage.
Leaderboard (sidebar)
Right-side panel always visible alongside the active tab. Top givers and top receivers for the selected period plus an all-time fallback. Read-only.
Optional admin extension
An opt-in admin tool for structured peer nomination at review time.
Kudos Survey lives at /kudos in the web dashboard and is separate from the day-to-day bot. Admins send a nomination survey to the team, collect structured shoutouts, and view results as a bar chart. Per-user comments are expandable inline and the full export goes to XLSX for quarterly review prep. Use it once a quarter alongside performance cycles, not as a replacement for the real-time bot. The bot handles ongoing recognition; the Survey handles structured retrospective nomination.
Frequently asked
Peer recognition bot for Slack. Anyone can send a kudos to one or more teammates. Public kudos collect into a weekly, monthly, or quarterly summary the bot posts in your announcement channel. Private kudos go straight to the recipient as a DM digest. Slack-native — no roster setup, no CSV, no HR sync.
Two ways. Type /kudospunk @teammate great job on the launch in any channel — an ephemeral chooser asks Main Stage or Underground. Or open the Kudos Punk App Home and click Give Kudos to fill the modal: who, what, how loud.
Main Stage (public) kudos get featured in the next periodic summary in your announcement channel — the whole team sees them. Underground (private) kudos are delivered as a DM digest only to the recipient. Same writing, different stage.
Weekly cadence lands every Monday morning. Monthly lands on the first of each month. Quarterly lands at the start of each quarter — January, April, July, October. Summaries fire at workspace local time.
Yes. The admin sets cadence on the web dashboard. Changing mid-period rolls the current period's pending kudos into the new cadence's next dispatch — nothing is lost.
Yes. Mention several teammates in the slash command or pick multiple users in the modal. They all get credited individually in the period stats and the leaderboard.
No. Every kudos is signed by the sender. This is intentional — recognition is more meaningful when the person being thanked knows who said it.
Not per user. Kudos Punk is org-wide. If your team needs an opt-out for sensitive cases, get in touch — it is on the roadmap.
Minimal access: post messages, see the team list, run slash commands, read the bot's own DMs. No access to your team's channel history. The workspace owner can revoke access any time from Slack Settings → Apps.
Yes. The bot auto-joins when an admin picks the channel from Admin Controls. If your channel is private and the auto-join fails, invite the bot manually with /invite @kudospunk.
Two of them. The Slack Home tab and the web dashboard both show Most Appreciated Artists (top receivers) and Top Rockstars (top givers), each split into this period and all-time. They are public to the workspace and update in real time.
An optional admin extension at /kudos in the web dashboard. Admins can send a survey nominating teammates for recognition, view results as a bar chart, open per-user comments, and export to XLSX. Use it for quarterly review prep, not day-to-day kudos.
Ready when you are
Free 30 days. Three-minute install. No code, no card. Peer recognition that actually happens because it lives where your team already is.
